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title: If the first grown-up you tell doesn't help, that is not the end: th… — Adults who help and adults who don't · tree and pragmatics
description: If the first grown-up you tell doesn't help, that is not the end: there is always another one who will. Who acts: you, that, end. A sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Adults who help and adults who don't, sentence 14

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If the first grown-up you tell doesn't help, that is not the end: there is always another one who will.

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**Who acts:** you, that, end · **What happens:** grow up, tell, not help, not be, be · **To what, where:** end, one · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Adults who help and adults who don't» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that, end), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:14
# text = If the first grown-up you tell doesn't help, that is not the end: there is always another one who will.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R4-particle ×1
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	4	amod	_	_
4	grown	grow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	nsubj	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	_
6	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	Agree=R4-particle|Haiku=4:compound
7	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
10	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
11	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	advcl	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	20	expl	_	_
20	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
21	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	_
22	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	23	det	_	_
23	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
24	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grow up** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **help** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · do-support |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | that | the end |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **is a** | present | the end | another one |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:392-adults-who-help-and-adults-who-dont.lesson:14`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R4-particle ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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